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  • Dr. Saada Daoud, a representative from Chad, listens to a key note speak from the U.S. Center for Disease Control during the African Partner Outbreak Response Alliance (APORA) conference, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Nov. 18, 2019.

    APORA VIII: Knowledge sharing is contagious

    The eighth iteration of the African Partner Outbreak Response Alliance engagement, focused on ‘One World, One Health,’ took place here, Nov. 18 - 21, 2019. Twenty-five African nations joined representatives from U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, U.S. Africa Command, and the Center for Disease Control to exchange knowledge and best practices on how to improve response capabilities for preventing, detecting and responding to emerging infectious diseases.
  • Members of a United Arab Emirates Air Force C-17A Globemaster III, discuss flight plans in preparation for their first conventional airdrop training mission, Sept. 25, 2019, while news media personnel flew aboard during an exercise on Mobility Guardian 2019 media day, over Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington. Exercise Mobility Guardian is Air Mobility Command's premier, large scale mobility exercise. Through robust and relevant training, Mobility Guardian improves the readiness and capabilities of Mobility Airmen to deliver rapid global mobility and builds a more lethal and ready Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Charles T. Fultz)

    Mobility Guardian enhances U.S. partnerships, interoperability with Allies

    Air Mobility Command’s premier, large scale exercise designed to validate readiness would not be nearly as robust without participation of partners from the international community. More importantly, providing Rapid Global Mobility would not be possible without the support of the U.S.’s international partners.
  • Members of the Pacific Angel 19-4 dental team tend to young patient at a health services outreach site in Lae, Papua New Guinea Sept. 9, 2019. Pacific Angel is multinational humanitarian assistance civil military engagement, improving military-to-military partnerships in the Pacific through medical health outreach, civic engineering projects and subject matter expert exchanges between U.S. service members, multinational militaries, non-governmental organizations, and PNG military and civilian participants. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jerilyn Quintanilla)

    Pacific Angel provides aid, builds partnerships throughout Indo-Pacific communities

    Operation Pacific Angel concludes its series of humanitarian response and disaster relief missions for 2019. This year’s iterations provided medical care, engineering assistance and subject matter expert exchanges in Bangladesh, Mongolia, and Papua New Guinea.
  • A doctor speaks to awaiting patients at a local clinic in El Palmital, Honduras, Jan. 31, 2019.

    Medical Airmen provide care in Honduras

    Outside a small clinic in the mountains of Honduras, dozens of people wait patiently for their chance to see a doctor. In a remote area like this, medical care can be hard to come by. Families from all over the mountain have come in search of relief from pain and disease.
  • Indian Air Force Air Vice Marshall Mahendra Vikram Singh, commander of the Indian air force command hospital in Bengaluru, shakes hands with U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Daniel Roberts, Pacific Air Forces Aviation management Branch chief, during the opening ceremony of a recent U.S. Air Force and Indian air force subject matter expert exchange (SMEE) at the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Bengaluru, India, in late June 2018. The four-day inaugural, bilateral exchange was designed to facilitate an understanding of the medical capabilities that each service brings to the table. (Courtesy photo)

    Medical exchange enhances U.S., India partnership

    U.S. Air Force Airmen traveled to the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Bengaluru, India, in late June 2018 for a subject-matter expert exchange (SMEE) with the Indian air force (IAF).
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    22nd MDG partners with local medics

    With the upcoming 2018 Frontiers in Flight Open House and Airshow scheduled for September 8, and the expectation to keep the large amount of visitors safe while they are having fun, the 22nd Medical Group and their local civilian medic counterparts are forming partnerships.
  • Maj. Shane Runyon (right), Baltimore’s Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS) program deputy director, and Master Sgt. Sean Patterson, a respiratory therapist and superintendent of C-STARS Baltimore, set up for patient arrival at the Trauma Resuscitation Unit (TRU) at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, June 13, 2018. The U.S. Air Force’s C-STARS Baltimore program partners with the R Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center to ensure medical Airmen train on the latest trauma care techniques. These techniques prepare medical Airmen to treat trauma patients in a deployed setting. (Courtesy photo)

    Baltimore C-STARS partnership prepares Airmen for battlefield medicine

    Civilian partnerships are a vital readiness resource for the Air Force Medical Service, refreshing medics on trauma skills and taking lessons learned to deliver life-saving trauma care downrange. The Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills program in Baltimore, Maryland, prepares medical Airmen for deployment through immersive training at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
  • Staff Sgt. Cheila, a medic with the 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron; Col. Chris Mathews, commander of the 72nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron; Lt. Col. Kristen Thompson, commander of the 960th AACS; Col. Christopher Grussendorf, commander of the 72nd Medical Group and Capt. Christopher, a flight surgeon with the 960th AACS, participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new flight line clinic in Bldg. 255 on May 18. The clinic is open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8 to 11 a.m. (Air Force photo by Kelly White)

    552nd Air Control Wing cuts ribbon on new flight line clinic

    In partnership with the 72nd Medical Group, the 552nd Air Control Wing recently opened a flightline clinic in the 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron.Providing value to the warfighter and fliers of the 552nd ACW, the new clinic meets medical needs nearest to the workplace, minimizes time spent outside the squadron or AWACS campus and improves
  • Col. Alfred K. Flowers, Jr., 52nd Medical Group commander, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, greets a group of German doctors on base at the Brick House Oct. 27 during the 52nd MDG’s first executive-level Eifel Health Consortium. Spangdahlem Airmen and their families rely on local doctors for specialty healthcare. The event brought more than 20 German doctors to the base, which allowed them and base medical care providers to discuss respective healthcare capabilities, practices, philosophies, approaches and concerns in an effort to continuously provide trusted care to Spangdahlem families.

    Eifel Health Consortium: More than 20 German doctors examine base healthcare

    The Spangdahlem Military Treatment Facility staff here held an Eifel Health Consortium on base Oct. 27 for more than 20 German doctors from four major, local hospitals in Bitburg, Trier, and Wittlich, Germany.The event marked the first executive-level, healthcare collaboration event of this magnitude at a U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces
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